#Animus Dragon

[marinusart]

Whiteout was strong as hell. She deserves so much more

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What can be worse than making a photo of a traditional painting? The same thing but there are metallic details

[ookamimonster]

Gale as an animus-cursed nightwing. once a renowned prophet working under the nightwing queen (mystra) he became too ambitious and started dabbling with animus magic and animus-touched items which backfired badly.

[liao-drfl25]

Day 8 : This dragon is an animus- but their spells are wildly unpredictable

I choose an Icewing to represent an animus dragon. I know it’s not very original but it inspired me.

I don’t know why but I associate the animus power with the color yellow :0

Challenge inspirated by this post :

[starryknight-dragonarts]

Aero is a young Skywing who's fire breath is considered relatively weak compared to other Skywings, but he has some unusual ability or incredible luck whenever fire is involved. For some unexplained reason, fire just refuses to hurt him; He isn't fireproof, but fire will just move around him and not touch him. Initially it was thought that he might be an Animus Dragon- (To anybody unfamiliar with Wings of Fire lore: Animus Dragons are a rare magical condition some dragons are born with where by command they could enchant an object to do just about anything they can imagine: Enchant a stone statue to become an animate assassin, enchant a wooden bowl to double any object that's placed in it, enchant a hole in the ice to produce infinite Seals! However there is a historic precedent for these Lizard Wizards to become Homicidal the more they use their powers so the Skywing tribe's solution was just to kill anybody with weird powers they don't understand before they become a problem.) -but when tested he has shown that he is not capable of casting any spells. Some Skywings still wanted to execute him anyway for having a strange power they didn't understand, but he was deemed relatively harmless and makes a very capable Blacksmith.

Aero is friendly and upbeat but he also has a tendency to be a little irresponsible, thrill-seeking, and often meddles into other Dragon's business or wander into places he's not supposed to be in.

Smith is a Skywing Animus who found out very quickly what his tribe does to hatchlings who are discovered to be Animus Dragons. He knew he needed to hide somewhere to not be discovered, so he used his magic to hide somewhere he believed he could never be discovered: Inside the body of his friend Aero, inhabiting him in a sort of non-physical form like a ghost who is able to communicate with Aero mentally. Aero is a considered relatively weak and unassuming so that benefits Smith as being his cover, but he has a vested interest in keeping Aero safe.

Being a Secret Animus and trying to protect his buddy Aero, Smith can't just go casting spells all the time or he could implicate Aero as the Animus and then they are both in trouble so Smith is careful and thoughtful about what he enchants making sure it's something he needs and has multiple applications so he doesn't need to make more spells. He made an enchantment to allow himself to control Fire.

Smith is reserved and apprehensive around other dragons having learned early on that as an animus he can not be trusted and his own tribe would kill him if they knew what he was. The only dragon he's really comfortable around is Aero and luckily Aero is the only one who can see him. Smith is creative and intuitive, despite having the capability to turn anything into a master craftwork with his magic he prefers the process of doing things himself with his own claws and values the work it takes to make something rather than it coming easy, however in his current form crafting things by claw is a little difficult.

Aero and Smith collaborated to build a suit of Armor that Smith can control remotely using or can open up and be worn by Aero as an actual suit of armor

[screamingendlesslyintospace]

thinking about Orca again.

Why did she choose to challenge Queen Coral when she was only 7 years old? we don’t really know what type of relationship Orca and Coral had, or why Orca decided to challenge Coral when she did. at first i thought it was because the queen was going to try to use her animus powers in the same way she is using Anemone, but Orca hid her powers from the queen. was it because she hated queen coral and wanted to be queen so badly that she couldn’t wait longer?

clearly she thought she would win the challenge, her statue in the nursery being already enchanted to kill future heirs BEFORE she entered the fight proves that. But Queen Coral ended up winning, and as she was dying Orca said “I did this all wrong. you’re going to rule forever, aren’t you, mother? you should thank me…” … but if Orca was an animus dragon could she not have won the fight easily using her powers? she probably wanted to keep her powers hidden, but because nobody knew she had magic, could she not have quietly used magic to assist her and make it look like it was a natural kill instead of a magical one? she would have saved her own life and secured her win by doing that. did she care about it being a fair win enough to not use her powers? or was there another reason?

if she was concerned about her soul turning evil from using her powers to kill Queen Coral, i’d understand not wanting to use them during the fight. HOWEVER … isn’t the concept of her statue pretty dark? it implies that—if Orca had won—she would have just been completely fine with every single one of her female eggs being smashed. now that could be just how Orca was; just kind of ruthless and power hungry (ig ?), and willing to see her eggs die if it meant she wouldn’t have competition for the throne. but, could it also have been partly because of her soul beginning to turn due to the use of her Animus powers? we don’t really know how much she used them or what she was using them for. though the statue would lead us to believe she used them—at least sometimes—for selfish reasons, which could mean that her soul had begun to turn slightly.

if Orca had enchanted the statue as she was dying as a way to take revenge on queen coral, her whole situation would have made more sense. but based on the fact that she chose to challenge the queen so young, AND she wanted to ensure all her own dragonets would be murdered just so she could remain queen, it kind of seems like her soul was already being corrupted by her powers. but if she had been corrupted, did nobody notice any changes in her behavior or thinking? even if they were subtle changes.

Because even when queens plan ahead and think about how to keep themselves from being challenged for the throne, they usually have at least one dragonet who’s a direct heir, even if they take measures to keep control over them. because longevity of your own kingdom and species is obviously (or, at least most likely) important to every type of queen, even if it’s for selfish reasons, because every clear-thinking dragon knows they won’t live forever. unless it was Orcas plan to win the queen challenge and then secretly enchant herself to live forever like Jerboa I?? would she have kept her animus powers a secret as queen??

i don’t know, i’m just very curious about the Orca era and Orca as a character. many brainworms.

[sometimesidrawerr]

TURTLEE

SWEET LIL GUY

YES

[pencilpavlova]

Artfight revenge for @long-bird of their Mudwing/Seawing Frog Mire!

I think Mudwings are cool and underrated, so this was an easy choice of character! Hope I did em justice because im kinda out of practice with dragons rip c':

You can see Long-bird's excellent attack on Kiina Here!

Only the character's owner can use this piece!

[biting-rose]

TURTLE 🐢💚!! my favourite blorbo

you'll notice his tail and ears are very different to tsunami and my general headcannon for seawings/ i imagine the tribe has countless phenotypes for features like that, as diverse as the marine life surrounding them

[the-reel-albacat]

turtle and anemone!

Who/what should I draw next?

[hugsloves]

Darkstalker the stinky in the jar... where he belongs

[starbluethunder]

heres nightshade, starchaser's girlfriend i mentioned. shes animus, but doesnt know it yet cos the rainwings didnt have access to the information to notice it at the time, so shes almost never used her magic except accidentally

[draconyyx]

Old Art This is from over a month ago, I never posted it because I didn't like it but idc anymore

Its Thorn and both her children, It may not be outright said but she definitely adopted Qibli

I realize the wings being off the image make Sunny and Qibli look wingless, My bad

[ookamimonster]

Jade Winglet

[laweema]

YCH "Magic in the talons"

It was a single-slot YCH on a Russian platform, and here is an OC Centavra that I drew some times)

Alternative version:

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Some little sketch with headcanon.

[sometimesidrawerr]

Lmao not Anemone calling Stonemover a fossil